Traditional Championship Wrestling (TCW) is set to return to Clarksville for an international television taping “Holiday Homecoming 2” on Saturday Dec. 8.

“Holiday Homecoming is an annual event,” TCW spokesperson and wrestler Matt Riviera said Friday. “The timing of the event is relevant to the end of the Razorbacks football season and the holiday season. We wanted to give fans a place where they could go between Thanksgiving to Christmas to escape the stresses associated with those holidays.”

Children under 12 are admitted free if they bring a canned food item or print off an online pass, which can be found at www.tcwwrestling.com.

“This is a kid friendly event,” Riviera said. “All those canned food items will be given to Main Street mission after the event.”

Wrestling legend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan will make his return to TCW to take on the Crown Prince of Crimson, Prince Al Farat in a Battle of Legends, who is managed by Russellville native Ken Kelly.

“I cannot wait to get back into the TCW ring to take on Al Farat,” Duggan said. “He has poked fun at me, the TCW fans and these great United States for long enough. On Dec. 8, I plan on shutting him down once and for all.

“I love TCW and I know that with the support of the great TCW fans, I will come to Clarksville and take care of business.”

Riviera said he has enjoyed his time working with Duggan and said he looks forward to seeing him in the event.

“Hacksaw is a class act,” Riviera said. “He’s a current member of the WWE Hall of Fame. He’s been wrestling since before I was alive. Everyone knows who he is. He was very popular in the mid-1980s around this part of the country while he wrestled for Mid-South Wrestling. It’s always a pleasure to meet someone you grew up watching as a kid, and they turn out to be a really good person.”

Dugan, a former Mid-South North American heavyweight champion and two-time Mid-South world tag-team champion, has wrestled for a myriad of organizations, including WCW, WWE, and UWF. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.

Every TCW title will be on the line at “Holiday Homecoming 2” the night of Dec. 8. TCW heavyweight champion King Shane Williams will put his title on the line against former TCW tag team champion Dustin Heritage in a title vs. hair match. If Heritage loses, his head will be shaved.

Riviera himself with be in action as he and his tag-team partner Golden Boy Greg Anthony put their titles on the line against Les Mayne and Sigmod.

“We’re looking forward to achieving another victory for the most successful group in wrestling, ‘The Empire,’” Riviera said. “And there is nothing like winning in your home state.”

The Empire, for the uninitiated, is a group of wrestlers whot control the TCW behind the scenes. But they control things without people knowing what happened or why it happened. They’re the bad guys.

The wrestling world is divided into to two groups.

The faces are the good guys. They’re the ones who ultimately triumph over evil. They’re the ones you root for.

Then there are the heels. They’re the cheaters and the liars. The ones who in at any cost. Every wrestler falls into one of those catagories — or some mixture of those catagories.

And as for Riviera and Anthony, Riviera said there was no question about it.

“We’re definitely the bad guys,” Riviera said. “We’re kind of the Ewing family of pro wrestling.”

Bell time is 6:30 p.m. at the Marvin Vinson Center in Clarksville. Tickets are on sale and can be purchased at the Marvin Vinson Center, Super Say Drug in Van Buren and credit card orders can be made online at www.tcwwrestling.com. A VIP meet and greet a the venue with “Hacksaw” Jim Duggen is included with every ticket purchase.